We are playing catchup here because I didn't have a chance to write the last couple of days. We will get you back on track in a couple of days. The truth of the matter is, you should still be reading regardless of this blog or not.
When I was a kid I was regularly apart of these royal rumbles with my cousins. We would fight for hours over the silliest things like Lego's and Tonka trucks. We would fight and fight and fight. We really should have been brothers. The new craze these days is the Ultimate Fighting Challenge. Men and woman train to stand toe to toe in an octagon surrounded by an 8 foot chain link fence. They get locked in and fight until one gives up or is knocked out. Anything goes in these matches. The idea for the MMA, I believe, came from today's reading. There is a Holy smack down between Jacob and a supernatural being.
22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[f] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”
But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,[g] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
As we enter into the season of our Daniel fast I encourage you to find out what it is you need to wrestle with the Lord about. It may be that you need to stop wrestling and submit to the plan God has given you for your life. There may be some decisions that need to be made and your not sure were to go or what to do. Intentionally seek the Lord and look for His will.
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